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Does it sounds anything like this?


If it does, STOP RIDING IT and change the oil. When you go to drain the oil, hold a strong magnet in the stream. If it comes out clean, you're lucky and you're just changing the oil.

If it doesn't come out clean, you may want to read my thread: THE MATRIX REBUILDING

Yeah, the only problem with that happened to me... I destroyed my factory 115mm variator (pictured above) and replaced with a cheapo 108mm one. Didn't have the money for a new performance one.

Well, at least supplement it with your pics! My pics are crap!

Here are the pics!

Inside of belly pan, one of the little fingers has cracked off.


Outside of the belly pan, with a scraped up decal. That's going to have to come off.


This is what happens when the front fender comes loose at about 45mph.









These are the fork covers on the side of the fender. One of the bolting points pulled out. Not sure how to fix that one. There's also some alignement fingers that broke off both sides. Which you can see where they went about 3/4 of the way up on the inside.


Now just general assembly shots.










I've thought about trying to replace them, but the only factory original parts I can find are going to run me around $150+. Heck, even generic replacements are going to cost me about the same. So, I think I'm going to try and fix it. I might have to get a little creative and probably try some plastic welding.

My first belt blew out around 8000 miles. Left me on the side of the road, in the middle of no where... had to have the scoot towed, because I didn't own a truck at the time and none of my truck owning friends were nearby or available to help.

I'll never ride without a spare again.

Nice find! Its funny how the all the different Wal-Marts will carry slightly different merchanise, especially when it comes to sporting goods and automotive. I haven't seen anything like those bags at any of the Wal-marts in my area, but I may have to go on a hunt. There are dozens of Wal-Marts within a short drive of my house.

I've got a couple questions if you don't mind.
How secure are those saddlebags to the bike?
Do they have straps to tie them down or do they just drape over the bike and get held by the seat?
Have you ridden with them on... do they blow around any?
What are the approximate inside dimensions?

Congrats! I love the netbook concept. Nice little machines.



I need a T-Shirt that says that!

I had been looking at netbooks for a long time, since I did not own a laptop at the time (aside from my work laptop) and I wanted something basic to supplement my desktop at home. It would have been great for the basic media needs and websurfing.

I, however as a geek extraordinaire, finally decided I wanted something with a little more "umph" and bought a 13" Toshiba laptop, bigger hard drive, more RAM, stand alone GPU and dual core CPU, but still no optical drive. Still highly portable, but can handle some more demanding tasks like some basic gaming and HD video without bogging down. Just wasn't as cheap as a netbook though...

Maybe if I hadn't bought that, I could have fixed my scooter by now.